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Ryburn, R.J.
Abstract
A clear trend has now emerged to integrate spatial data with mainstream corporate data management systems, and the technology to do this is now largely to hand. GIS is becoming less of a specialist field and more closely tied to general data management. These advances apply not just to 2-dimensional data but to 3 or more dimensions - going beyond the bounds of conventional Euclidean space. The technology to handle n-dimensional space that is widely used in business data-warehousing applications can now be put to use handling the complexities of geochrono-logical, geochemical and geophysical space. This is extremely good news for geoscience, which has never sat very comfortably within the 2-dimensional confines of traditional GIS systems. Now we can expect to see the beginnings of true geoscience information systems that can be applied to space-time chunks of the earth's crust in the search for minerals and oil.
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- data standards
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- cartography
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- geoscience databases
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- Earth Sciences
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1999-01-01T00:00:00
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33, p24-25
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